Owners to sell popular Celtic venue in Carthage
The owners of the 250-seat Skye Theatre Performing Arts Center in Carthage, which has featured top Celtic music performers from Canada, Ireland and Scotland for almost a decade, are planning to close the theater in September at the end of this year’s performance season.
Phill McIntyre told the Lewiston Sun Journal that he and his wife plan to sell the theater after it closes. McIntyre said he had already found a buyer for the building, which after its closing will no longer be used as a theater. The sale will be finalized on or near Oct. 1, he told the newspaper.
In a message posted on Facebook Thursday, McIntyre wrote that the theater will have a “final farewell show on Sept. 17,” a week after the second annual Crossroads Celtic Festival in Oxford and Franklin counties that McIntyre helped launch as a spur for the region’s cultural tourism potential.
Last fall’s inaugural five-day festival featured artists from Canada's Maritime Provinces, Quebec, the United Kingdom, Maine and the United States performing with Maine acts at venues in the Franklin county towns of Rangeley, Stratton, Carrabassett Valley, Kingfield, Phillips, Farmington and South Carthage and the Oxford county towns of Rumford, Oxford, Lovell, South Paris, Fryeburg and Bethel.
The Sun Journal reported that McIntyre intends to continue serving as the festival’s artistic director and plans to continue his involvement in booking Celtic and Roots music acts throughout New England.
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